MMC8.8 TV Crash w/ AIW 9800 Pro

[Paul Grunwald]

I have an AIW 9800 Pro. I'm running under Win XP Pro. MMC 8.8, Cat 3.10.
After about 5 minutes of watching, it either takes down the whole system or
the app crashes leaving only audio playing.

Sound Card is a Soundblaster Audigy, I downloaded the latest drivers today
and installed. No effect.

Everything else seems to be running fine.

suggestions?


TIA,
P.

 

[Ed Dombrowski]

My only suggestion would be to go back to a version that works. I have to
run 8.2 with my Audigy. It is absolutely ridiculous that ATI would release a
version that doesnt work right with what is arguably the most popular add-in
sound card in the industry, but it appears thats exactly what they did.
Driver updates from Soundblaster did not fix my problems either.

Ed

 

[Christof]

Hi,

I have the same problem but after approximately one half hour.
The problem is resolved on my PC by disabling agp fast write in smartgart.
Please, describe your configuration as below.

Regards


My Configuration
Pentium 4 3,00C GHZ

Asus P4C800E Deluxe bios 1014

1024 DDR3500 CORSAIR

HIS 9800 ALL IN WONDER PRO bios 008.004 pilote catalyst 3.10 DX9.0a

Sound Card Soundblaster Audigy 2

DD SATA 73 Go Raptor WESTERN DIGITAL + DD SATA 250Go HITACHI

DVD PLEXTOR PX-116A

DVD Burner PLEXTOR PX-708A

Power Supply Antec 430 W

 

[Christof]

Hi,

I have the same problem but after approximately one half hour.

The problem is resolved on my PC by disabling agp fast write in smartgart.

Please, describe your configuration as below.

Regards



My configuration

Pentium 4 3,00C GHZ

Asus P4C800E Deluxe bios 1014

1024 DDR3500 CORSAIR

HIS 9800 ALL IN WONDER PRO bios 008.004 pilote catalyst 3.10 DX9.0a

Sound Card Soundblaster Audigy 2

DD SATA 73 Go Raptor WESTERN DIGITAL + DD SATA 250Go HITACHI

DVD PLEXTOR PX-116A

DVD Burner PLEXTOR PX-708A

Power Supply Antec 430 W

 

[Paul Grunwald]

I have the same problem but after approximately one half hour.
The problem is resolved on my PC by disabling agp fast write in
smartgart. Please, describe your configuration as below.

This seem to have fixed my problem - thank you! I ran for about 1/2 hour
without problems. I will et it go longer but that did make a change.

My machine is as follows:

DFI WB72 -SC w/ wb722124.bin bios
Socket 423 P4 1.9Ghz o/c'd to 1.95Mhz (rock solid)
640 Meg PC 133 memory
Audigy Mp3 with 5.12.5.441 drivers
Western Digital WB300BB 80 Gig Drive
Maxtor 30 GB Drive
Realtek RTL8139 network card (SMC?)
Canopus DV Raptor 1394 Capture Card
AIW 9800 Pro with MMC 8.8, Cat 3.10
Lite-on 48125 CD/RW
Matshita DVD-ROM SR-8583
300 Watt Enermax PS (voltages are good)

Win XP Pro SP-1 and Patched


HTH,
P.

 

[Ed Dombrowski]

I wasnt sure what fast write did so i did a search on Google. Turned up a
Tom's Hardware guide on BIOS tuning that claims a 10% performance increase
when AGP fast write is enabled in the BIOS. I would assume this is the same
functionality even though it is enabled in SMARTGART. A 10% performance hit
seems like a big deal considering the price paid for a 9800 pro you run in
your system. I guess you could turn it on and off but thats a pain.

Ed

 

[Paul Grunwald]

I wasnt sure what fast write did so i did a search on Google. Turned
up a Tom's Hardware guide on BIOS tuning that claims a 10% performance
increase when AGP fast write is enabled in the BIOS. I would assume
this is the same functionality even though it is enabled in SMARTGART.
A 10% performance hit seems like a big deal considering the price paid
for a 9800 pro you run in your system. I guess you could turn it on
and off but thats a pain.

I have not benchmarked yet but here is mixed review:

http://www.techspot.com/tweaks/radeon/index.shtml

 

[Paul Grunwald]

I have not benchmarked yet but here is mixed review:

http://www.techspot.com/tweaks/radeon/index.shtml

For whatever it's worth, I just ran 3dmark03 and saw no mentionable
difference in my scores with Fast writes off. I have not noticed any fram
rate differences in games either.

I also do not have the fast write option in the motherboard bios.

P.

 

[Me]

I had a very similar situation since a clean Win XP install on Saturday.

Seemed to have fixed it today by removing my SB drivers.
Then restart and let Windows detect the SB and do it's stuff.
Then install the latest TV WDM drivers over the top of the already installed
WDM drivers.
Followed by another restart and SB drivers install and another restart.

Before that lot the TV would crash to an error message, 16 colours and
just the sound playing every 15 mins or so. Been running for a few hours
since my "adjustments".